When weddings go bad: horror stories from brides and grooms

Sadly, not every bride gets the fairytale wedding day she’s dreamed of.

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We hear so many stories about bridezillas and wedding’s gone awry it becomes easy to tune out the everyday disasters like cakes gone wrong, brides tripping on veils or guests falling into lakes during the photo session.

Now the bride’s father is suing his daughter’s would be in-laws – yep, this has made it to the courts – over the costs of the cancelled wedding, saying that the groom’s parents had agreed to cover the payment of some guests they’d asked to invite.

But as for couples who actually made it to the wedding day, spare a few thoughts and plenty of sympathy for a bride who was left stunned when her groom’s lover turned up at the ceremony – wearing the same wedding dress.

A shocking video, reportedly filmed in Ghana, shows the woman bursting in wearing the dress, a white veil and gloves.

The stunned groom is seen standing looking sheepish as the guests erupt screaming and shouting.

The cheating groom’s lover then grabs the microphone at the front of the room, drops her veil to reveal her face and starts explaining that the groom is a cheat. A local news service reports a fight later erupted in the hall. It’s not clear whether the wedding went ahead.

Sadly, not every bride gets the fairytale wedding day she’s dreamed of.

You’re dressed, you’re at the wedding ceremony and then…

• In May 2016 another video circulated showing a woman shouting during a wedding ceremony, “So this is what you left my house for this morning? And the other night?” It’s thought she was having a relationship with the groom.

• A groom in the UK announced he was going to play a game. He told guests to turn over their plates to check if they had a dot underneath. All with red dots were to remain standing. Eight guys were left standing. The man said, “Ladies and gentleman, can you all please look at the eight gentlemen left standing? They have slept with my wife since we’ve been engaged. I am now going for an annulment.”

• A man disappeared from his white wedding ceremony only for his wife to find out shortly after he’d sold their marital home behind her back and kept the cash.

• Two drunken wedding crashers in Florida rocked up, threatened the bride and refused to leave. The men were arrested and charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer.